Day 249: Walk around Osh city
2024年8月10日, キルギスタン ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Also known as the ancient city. It is the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 and it is also called the southern capital.
Day 250: Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain
2024年8月11日, キルギスタン ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
It marked the midpoint on the Ancient Silk Road, the overland trade route taken by caravans between Europe and Asia. It is a UNESCO World Heritage. There were a lot of legend or rituals that you couldもっと詳しく
Day 252: Osh Old Bus Station
2024年8月13日, キルギスタン ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
We went to the old bus station in Osh to catch the Marshrutka mini-van to Sary Mogul. The bus was scheduled at 2pm. We arrived at 1pm, the first bus was full already, Lucky that there was a secondもっと詳しく
Day 252: on the way to Sary Mogul
2024年8月13日, キルギスタン ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
The view was absolutely stunning when we got closer to Sary Mogul. Started to see the snowy mountains. We looked forward to our stay in the area.
Day 253: Sary Mogol
2024年8月14日, キルギスタン ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
First day in Sary Mogol! It’s a sick day for Chris to prepare himself for high altitude Sary Mogol is at 2,980m. We planned to climb a bit higher the next few days. So we decided to spend a day justもっと詳しく
Day 254: Hike to Tulpar Lake
2024年8月15日, キルギスタン ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C
We were up and early today with the hope of hiking to Tulpar Lake, which was 20km from Sary Mogol. The scenery was very stunning. We could see Lenin Peak from afar!
Day 254: Tulpar Lake
2024年8月15日, キルギスタン ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
After a long hike, we arrived at Tulpar Lake! It is at the foot of Lenin Peak, the highest peak in Pamir mountains at 7134m. We were just at Tulpar Lake, a high-altitude mountain lake at 3500m. Weもっと詳しく
Day 255: Hike to Lenin Peak Base Camp
2024年8月16日, キルギスタン ⋅ ☀️ 6 °C
Nice and early again to hike to Lenin Peak Base Camp area. The view from the yurt in the early morning was breathtaking!
Day 255: Tulpar Lake Yurt Camp
2024年8月16日, キルギスタン ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
We went back to our Yurt 🛖 and walked around the Tulpar Lake area.
Day 256: Hike out to Sary Mogol
2024年8月17日, キルギスタン ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
Nice and early again. We said goodbye to our Yurt and began our 23km walk back to Sary Mogol. Though the walk was long, we had fun just walking on the path.
Day 257: Transit to Sary Tash
2024年8月18日, キルギスタン ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
It’s a Sunday today. We transited from Sary Mogol to Sary Tash. The two towns are just 30 mins apart. The reason why we transited to Sary Tash was to prepare our border crossing to Kashgar, Chinaもっと詳しく
Day 259: Walk around Kashgar
2024年8月20日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
After a nice rest in the hostel, we started to explore Kashgar, Xinjiang by randomly walking around.
Day 259: Terrace Folk Residence
2024年8月20日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
The high terrace folk residence was a major renewal project that has brought changes to Kashgar. Many pottery craftsmen used to live here. Now, it was an area for people to visit and understand howもっと詳しく
Day 259: Kashgar Old City
2024年8月20日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
The Kashgar old city has a history of more than 2000 years. It contains a large group of Uygur residential houses. The main streets were not our cups of tea as it was too touristy. It was fascinatingもっと詳しく
Day 260: Kashgar Old City Day 2
2024年8月21日, 中国 ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
The old city was so large that we did a second visit to cover the part that we didn’t visit yesterday. We deeply dived into the architecture of the old houses.
Day 260: Id Kah Mosque
2024年8月21日, 中国 ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
This mosque is in the Kashgar Old City. It’s the Islamic cultural center of Kashgar & Xinjiang’s largest mosque.
Day 261: Walk around Kashgar
2024年8月22日, 中国 ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Random walk around Kashgar today. We came across a large statue of Chairman Mao. Then, we visited the Pantuo City, the ruins of the castle where Ban Chao, a famous general of the Eastern Han Dynastyもっと詳しく
Day 262: Leaving Kashgar
2024年8月23日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Leaving Kashgar today at around 17:30 on a K-class overnight train to Kuqa. We would have arrived in Kuqa at 7am next morning. But….!
Day 263: On the train to Kuqa
2024年8月24日, 中国 ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
At around 2am, all passengers were waken up by the staff. They announced that the train could not move forward as the heavy rain had destroyed the rail ahead of us. So the train was instructed toもっと詳しく
Day 263: arriving at Bachu 巴楚
2024年8月24日, 中国 ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
At around 4:30am, we arrived at Bachu 巴楚. It was absolutely chaotic. It’s time to figure out what we should do next.
Day 263: on the way to Aksu
2024年8月24日, 中国 ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
We were not sure which part of the rail is damaged. Some people suggested us to go to a place Aksu, then take a train to Kuqa. They were quite sure that the train was running from Aksu to Kuqa.もっと詳しく
Day 263: Aksu Train Station
2024年8月24日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
At around 11am, we arrived and got settled in the Aksu Train Station. The ticket office was all lined up and there were a lot of people at the station. The major rail line between Kashgar to Urumqiもっと詳しく
Day 263: On the train to Kuqa fr Aksu
2024年8月24日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
This time, we were really heading to Kuqa! This was our final leg! The 2-hour standing train ride was fun. People were friendly and we had a lot of laughters!
Day 263: Kuqa Train Station
2024年8月24日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Finally!!! After a more than 24-hour transit with a train, a taxi, and another standing train(originally was on 12-hour, one train ride), we were here! Both of us were absolutely exhausted.
Day 265: Kizilgaha Beacon Tower
2024年8月26日, 中国 ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
It is one of the oldest but also best preserved watchtowers along the silk road installed in Han Dynasty, which provided security for traveling caravans in Xinjiang. It was built between 2th Centuryもっと詳しく